I Promise [Jackunzel & Mericcup]

The Most Painful Thing

They suddenly heard voices coming from the forest. It was a majority of guys, with also the sound of a stampede and wood clashing. Hiccup helped Merida stand up, and so did Toothless with Hiccup when the group of men appeared, showing the uniform they wore… They were from Merida’s kingdom. They have come to retrieve the Princess.

Merida held tight onto Hiccup and Jack tried to protect both of them. Toothless snarled at them as he covers Merida and Hiccup, fighting the guards that tried to even take a step closer to the three of them. Jack froze all of the guards’ feet, as well.

Someone from behind suddenly stepped forward. It was Merida and Hiccup’s family. They have been searching for them everywhere. Queen Elinor and King Fergus immediately hugged Merida, and so did Stoick to Hiccup.

“Hiccup! Toothless! What happened to the both of you?!” Stoick said as he saw the wound they had.

Jack stared at Stoick’s face carefully and recognized him. His eyes widened as he realized that he was seeing the husband of Emily Overland, and the child he has been looking for all along was Hiccup.

“I’ll tell you what happened, your son ran away with our daughter!” King Fergus exclaimed, marching closer to Chief Stoick.

Stoick stood up and went closer to King Fergus, “Why don’t you ask your wonderful daughter on who really left forcefully?”

“Your son kidnapped my daughter!” King Fergus exclaimed.

Stoick didn’t back out either, “Maybe if your daughter was more responsible and mature enough, she wouldn’t have dragged my son with her when she ran away!”

Both kings almost punched each other’s face if it wasn’t for their child and guards stopping them. Elinor took a step closer to Stoick.

“This competition, for you and your son, is OVER!”

“Then, so be it!” Stoick exclaimed.

Merida and Hiccup was shocked by what their parents said, they gasped and their eyes widened as they looked at their parents and to each other. They didn’t want that to happen. They wanted to get married.

“Dad, no!” Merida insisted, grabbing her father’s arm.

Merida ran to Hiccup, grabbing his hand and wrapping her hands around him so tightly. King Fergus suddenly grabbed Merida and dragged her with them, and so did Stoick to Hiccup.

Jack and Toothless didn’t know what to do. Jack didn’t want their families to fight, but he didn’t know how he, a mere stranger to the king and queen, could stop them.

He looked at Toothless with a serious face, “Toothless, I’ve got a job for you.”

Toothless looked back saying that he was listening.

“Don’t let Hiccup lose hope on Merida… I know his mother, he has the same heart as her. Keep him strong,” Jack said as the dragon nodded, “Once everything is fine, already… Go to the tower in the forest. It isn’t easy to find, but hey, we can fly… I’ll go get Rapunzel.”

…

Rapunzel slowly wakes up. She was lying down on her bed. Gothel picked up the flowers that she removed from Rapunzel’s hair and placed it in a basket.

“Good morning, my flower, how’s your headache?” Gothel said with a smile.

Rapunzel sat down and looked around, “W-What happened?”

“Oh, you suddenly had a serious headache when I returned, that’s why I put you to sleep for it to go away.”

Rapunzel suddenly got so confused, “I… Can’t remember… anything about that.”

“The headache must have been too much that you forgot what you had done a while ago,” Gothel said as she caressed Rapunzel’s head.

After a while, Jack arrived by Rapunzel’s window. She was looking at her painting materials, wondering what she wanted to paint.

“Rapunzel!” Jack screamed her name and was so relieved to see her safe; Rapunzel didn’t look back at him and continued to paint.

Jack went inside and came closer to Rapunzel, “Rapunzel, don’t tell me you wanna finish a painting first--…”

“Mother!” Rapunzel suddenly stopped painting and walked up to Jack… But what Jack didn’t expect was that when Rapunzel came closer, she just passed through him. Jack gasped in shock. He didn’t know what happened.

“No… Rapunzel,” Jack tried to wave his hands around Rapunzel, but she didn’t even give him one glance. Jack’s eyes were full of sorrow, but before he would start to really believe that Rapunzel couldn’t see him, he had to try one last thing.

He put out his hand and tried to touch Rapunzel’s cheeks, but it just went through her. Jack was shocked. He never thought that his worst nightmare would come true; to not be seen by the person he loved so much. Rapunzel only saw him as thin air, now. Jack felt tears forming in his eyes. Rapunzel went inside the kitchen, leaving Jack all alone in the place they had so memories together.

He was about to leave when he heard Gothel’s voice, “How dreadful isn’t it? To not be seen by the one you love dearly.”

Jack looked behind him and his rage grew stronger, “What did you do to her?!”

“Oh, simple. I put a spell to erase every single memory she has of you and even everything you told her. Can you guess where I kept those memories?”

Jack was horrified, “The bottle you broke…”

Gothel nodded and put on a grin, “And now, those memories are completely gone.”

“Mother, who are you talking to?” Rapunzel suddenly went out and put up a confused face.

Gothel turned around and chuckled, “Oh, no one, dear. I was just talking to myself. I suddenly remembered the new paint you requested me on your birthday when I saw your paintings, but silly me, I forgot It on the way home.”

“I… requested new paint?” Rapunzel asked.

“Yes, you did, dear. Now, let’s go back to the kitchen and eat your favorite Hazelnut soup,” Gothel pushed Rapunze back to the kitchen, giving Jack one last evil smile before Jack took off and flew away.

Jack stayed on the highest branch of a tree; he leaned his head on the trunk as he closed his eyes and broke down in tears. His heart was broken of what he had just seen. Rapunzel, his first believer and his first love, didn’t see or remember him. This was the day he was so afraid of, and now, it has happened. He looked above and saw the moon even in the morning sky… He knew that he was watching, alongside with the sun.

“Tell me… Why… Did you make me like this?” Jack asked the man in the moon.

“If you would’ve just let me be a normal person… I… Rapunzel would’ve… I’d give up everything for her, even if it caused my life… Just… Let her remember.”

The sun or the moon did not response, leaving Jack hopeless. What he didn’t know is that the moon heard what Jack said. The sun and the moon sent a signal to the Sandman. He was busy making people sleep with good dreams when the moon shined brightly on him and told him to catch the droplet the moon and sun would give him. As soon as the droplets fell at the palm of Sandy’s hands, they turned into Sandman’s sleeping dust that formed into a form or a snowflake and flower together. Sandy knew what to do. He flew as fast as he can to the tower of Rapunzel, carrying the droplets of the sun and moon.